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The Business—and Life—of Professional Baseball
Throughout a 20+ year career in professional baseball, Scott Akasaki ’98, senior director of team travel for the Los Angeles Dodgers, has witnessed a lot of changes and has collected a wide array of Major League memorie…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/business-and-life-professional-baseballAn Indigenous Writer's Journey: Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System on Native American Reservations
Interspersed with readings, Lakota author David Heska Wanbli Weiden will discuss his journey from a first-generation college student to bestselling writer. He'll also speak about the numerous criminal justice policies e…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/indigenous-writers-journey-inequalities-criminal-justice-system-native-americanMy Family’s Murder
A historian turns to literature: Omer Bartov, the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, speaks about his new novel, "The Butterfly and the Axe." Spring 1944: A Jewish family is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/my-familys-murderWomen, Life, Freedom: Inside Iran's New Revolution
It has been over four months since Mahsa Amini's death under suspicious circumstances in Tehran. Arrested for allegedly not wearing the hijab, her death activated wide-spread protests across Iran. Despite brutal pushbac…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/women-life-freedom-inside-irans-new-revolutionThe Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies, Finance, and Trade
Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University, investigates how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform global economies, for bet…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/future-money-how-digital-revolution-transforming-currencies-finance-and-tradeVoices from Ukraine
For over nine months, the Russian military has prosecuted an unprovoked war against Ukraine, bombing cities, destroying critical infrastructure, and brutally occupying multiple regions of Ukraine. While the Ukrainian co…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/voices-ukraineA Sensory and Interactive Experience with Artist Jeppe Hein
Widely known for his experiential and interactive artworks at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect, Danish artist Jeppe Hein’s bright red Modified Social Benches, recently installed a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/sensory-and-interactive-experience-artist-jeppe-heinHoliday Concert 2022
The Claremont Treble Singers will perform a selection of a cappella and piano-accompanied music from the middle ages to the present, including music by the popular composer Eric Whitacre and works for the holidays. The…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/holiday-concert-20222021-22 Presidential Initiative Faculty Fellows on Anti-Racism across Disciplines
In Spring 2021, the Presidential Initiative on Anti-Racism and the Black Experience in America launched a Faculty Fellows program to enhance the capacity of CMC faculty to address issues of race, racism, and Black exper…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/2021-22-presidential-initiative-faculty-fellows-anti-racism-across-disciplinesSeeing Iraq in Ukraine
On March 20, 2003, U.S. forces dropped precision-guided bombs over a complex believed to be hosting the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and his senior staff. The following invasion and occupation by U.S. forces lasted…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/seeing-iraq-ukraine